Butcher

Job description:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: perform duties relating to the cutting, preparation, display, and selling of meat products including making specific cuts for customers, and answering customers' questions about our selection. Ensure a positive company image by providing courteous, friendly, and efficient service to customers and team members at all times.

• Performing quality inspections on meats and other products
• Cut and package meats
• Prepare specific cuts for customers
• Maximizes sales potential through effective and proper procedures for prepping, storing, rotating, stocking, and merchandising products.
• Provides excellent customer service, addresses the needs of customers in a timely and effective manner, and models suggestive selling techniques
• Estimate requirements and order meat supplies to maintain inventories
• Move meats from coolers to cutting area and return meats to coolers
• Clean equipment and tools
• Follows and complies, or ensures compliance with established procedures, including Weights and Measures, health and sanitation, and safe work practices.
• Performs opening, mid, and closing duties as assigned, and ensures accuracy of signs and pricing.
• Merchandise/Product signage & layout
• Order Product
• Conduct inventory of the department
• Quality control & sanitary measures
• Maintain compliance with all company policies and procedures
• Perform related duties as assigned by General Manager/Store Manager/Department Manager

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

• Minimum 2 years of previous butcher/meat cutter experience
• Excellent understanding of various meat-cutting methods
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers
• Proficient computer skills
• Must be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service
• Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practice

Physical Requirements:

• Availability to work a flexible schedule, including weekends, nights, and holidays, as required
• Ability to stand for prolonged periods
• Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly frequent movements from place to place within the store. Bend, lift, carry, reach/extend arms, and hands above shoulder height frequently, or otherwise move in a constantly changing environment, climb steps regularly
• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
• Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards
• Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 lb